What are /lit/'s thoughts on "The Prince" and

>>7607330
Sort of related to this: I bought the Penguin version online before reading here that Penguin translations are shitty. Am I missing out?

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/machiavelli/

https://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/jbell/strauss.pdf

http://www.mmisi.org/ma/31_3-4/schram.pdf

top tier satire :^)

>>7607330
I really enjoyed it in the context of my political science class.

I really don't think about it much as a literary work though.

>>7607330
Castiglione was baser.

>>7607897
It's not like you're reading Machiavelli for the prose.

It's okay. A good insight into political history,fundamental work in some aspects. It's 1:45 am here so too lazy to type an essay, sorry mate.

>>7607330
I like some of 2pac's lyrics, Stirner did it better.

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He got BTFO'd by Friedrich der Große

His Discourses of Livy are superior